The Marriage of Opposites Audiobook (Free)

“A luminous, Marquez-esque story” (O, The Oprah Journal) from the brand new York Times bestselling writer of The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on a tropical isle about the extraordinary woman who gave delivery to painter Camille Pissarro-the Father of Impressionism.

Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the first 1800s, Rachel dreams of existence in faraway Paris. Rachel’s mother, a pillar of their little refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven about The Marriage of Opposites her daughter for being a difficult girl who won’t live by the guidelines. Growing up, Rachel’s salvation is usually their maid Adelle’s belief in her strengths, and her deep, life-long companionship with Jestine, Adelle’s little girl. But Rachel’s lifestyle isn’t her own. She is married off to a widower with three kids to save her father’s business. When her old husband dies instantly and his good-looking, much youthful nephew, Frédérick, comes from France to settle the property, Rachel seizes her very own life story, beginning a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal that affects all of her family members, including her favorite son, who will become one of the biggest performers of France.

“A masterpiece of design” (Dallas Morning hours Information), The Relationship of Opposites showcases the beloved, bestselling Alice Hoffman on the height of her considerable powers. “Her lush, seductive prose, and heart-pounding subject matter…make this most recent skinny-dip in enchanted realism…the Platonic ideal from the beach go through” (Slate.com). Once forgotten to background, the relationship of Rachel and Frédérick “is only going to renew your dedication to Hoffman’s astonishing storytelling” (USA TODAY).